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A side discusion from this thread really merits a thread of its own. During the reign of Ivan IV of Russia, frequently known as Ivan the Terrible, there was Turco-Mongol Chingisid prince who was a general in the Tsars army and had converted to Orthodoxy. Simeon Bekbulatovich so impressed Ivan IV, that he very well may have become the Tsar himself had history progressed differently. This thread is to discuss the possibility and its potentially vast ramifications.
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